Kron wrote:Why are people so keen to have everything bastardised onto a single home platform? Shooter enthusiasts would actually want more than a single console to experience the software how they were originally intended and not on something which is so obviously offering quantity over quality of late.
I dunno, I guess I'm just not enough of an "enthusiast," but I don't mind having a lot of games in one place, so to speak. Not every port is going to be super arcade-perfect, but at least in most cases, if the developer puts enough effort into it, the games are perfectly playable, mostly faithful to the originals, and sometimes include something extra. To bring Psyvariar 2 back up again, I believe that it, like Trizeal, was originally made for the same DC-friendly hardware, and thus the PS2 port is less "perfect" than the DC port; however, seeing as the game still looks and sounds good (if not "perfect"), includes a replay DVD, extra modes and functions, and costs half to a third as much as the DC version, I'm not exactly going to feel guilty about buying it instead. Yeah, it's a "blue disc of death" and the load times are longer, but the important stuff is still there, as far as I'm concerned.
I guess different people are pickier than I am about what they buy, and that doesn't bother me at all, but on the flipside of the coin I wonder why some of the aforementioned are seemingly offended by those of us looking for a bit of convenience and a bit of a discount, at the expense of "perfection," but with usually minimal losses, when you get right down to it.